Primer galgo [First greyhound]

This piece takes part of a series of sculpture essays on the functionality of billboards, made for an economy that works in parallel to the market of the original. That is to say, a place where the same mechanisms of the capitalist system are used, but where there is a change of meaning in the replica. The traders of large fairs like La Salada or the ones in the Triple Border copy the transaction of the legal trademarks market, selling to their peers a mirrored world. The nic, ribok and adios not only become an aspirational class desire, but also the construction of an inverse landscape. This work attempts to relate to the resistance art aesthetics and is close to the reflection of Verónica Gago, who affirms that the Latin American baroque represents the economy of energies and ways of doing of the colonial times, which survives or persists in the popular praxis. Source: Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2019-2020 Catalogue